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Poor white man, 'The poor white man sat beneath our tree'. From the poem : 'The West Indies, a poem'. By James Montgomery. Image taken from Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade; written by James Montgomery, James Grahame, and E. Benger. Embellished with engravings from pictures painted by R. Smirke. Originally published in R. Bowyer: London, 1809.